THE COMMON CORE FACE-OFF: HIDING THE TRUTH ABOUT CHOICE & CHARTER
SCHOOLSPART 1 of 2

By
Anita Hoge
July 1, 2014
NewsWithViews.com

“Those
who have the privilege to know, have the duty to act.” -Albert
Einstein

Obama
and ‘Conservative’ Groups Use Bait and Switch Tactics. They
are using the momentum against Common Core to complete and further their
agenda—“Choice” and Charter Schools.

The
truth has uneasy consequences. ‘Conservatives’ and Republicans
are revealing their so-called "Choice Plan" that mimics the
Obama-Duncan Plan. In an article posted by the ‘conservative’
organization FreedomWorks, their entire proposed controversial agenda
for “choice” in education demands rebuttal, discussion and
dissection. The Einstein quote at the top of this article validates
my decision to act on current documentation, explaining to the American
people the danger that these ‘conservative groups’ represent
to parents when they demand “choice.”

Republican
Governors who say that Common Core is gone are using fraud and deception
to further their cause. Their cause is government-controlled, taxpayer-funded
“choice” and charter schools. Republicans are now conveniently
using the slogan “No Common Core” as a litmus test—a
popular hot button that will cue the Fall elections. But, are citizens
and parents aware of where that path will take us? For example, see
the following quote:

A
draft action plan by the advocacy group FreedomWorks lays out the
effort as a series of stepping stones: First,
mobilize to strike down the Common Core. Then push to expand school
choice by offering parents tax credits or vouchers to help pay tuition
at private and religious schools. Next, rally the troops to abolish
the U.S. Department of Education. Then it’s on to eliminating
teacher tenure.

Let
me explain these real issues:

The
'Anti-Common Core Movement' is clouding the real issue. While states
are thinking they have struck down Common Core, Obama is using the ESEA
Flexibility Waivers to hide his real agenda—to Continue Common
Core. Many ‘conservatives’ are—wittingly or unwittingly—helping
Obama’s cause.

The
move to "Strike Down Common Core" is a fake. It is a sophisticated
machination to masquerade the real agenda embraced by ‘conservative’
groups who are working in tandem with the Obama Administration. “Race
to the Top” and the Common Core Copyright made up the 'foot in
the door' for standardizing the 50-state strategy. This was the first
step towards nationalizing education—with national standards,
a national test, and moving toward a national curriculum. Parents against
Common Core are being used, especially by directing them to a new, easy
answer to sidestep Common Core, i.e., government-controlled “choice.”

‘Conservative’
groups have told parents they can save their children from the federal
government by supporting this “choice.” Little do these
'new-to-the-system' parents realize that they are being set up for a
trap. Choice is that trap, and charter schools are
right behind, for the bigger trap agenda. When this agenda becomes fully
operational, parents will actually lose their voice. They will lose
their vote in our representative form of government. There will be no
true representation. The word "accountability" has meaning;
it means being in compliance to federal law. You know, the federal strings
attached to federal money. This fake “choice” is attached
to federal strings.

What
happens with Common Core? College and Career Ready Standards, or Workforce
Readiness Skills, in a standards-based system will identify your child
to the federal government as an individual future global
worker. It doesn't matter what name the standards use—it is within
the power of the federal government to access your individual
child through these individual standards. This plan
was laid out by the U.S. Department of Labor in the Secretary’s
Commission for Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) report way back in
1992. Obama has set out his plan through “Race to the
Top,” his plan to nationalize education. This is also hidden in
the ESEA Flexibility Waiver, called Title I (explained below). Here
is the hard part for people to understand—the fact is that this
same plan was also once called the Reagan Plan, the Clinton Plan, the
Bush Plan, and the Romney Plan. Romney
called for using Title I funds and IDEA, which is Special Education,
the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act for school
“choice.”

Here
is the plan, or let's call it "The Big Picture":

Individual
standards are to be met by individual students, taught
by individual teachers. Individual
students must be taught with validated—approved and certified--curriculum.
All three entities are controlled through “accountability”—the
federal test. This triad--controlled standards, controlled teachers,
and controlled curriculum--is the plan.

This
3-faceted plan controls the outcome—your child or student. The
‘Conservatives’’ plan is to fund individual
children wherever they go to school, so this “choice”
money "follows the child" and extends the accountability even
to private and religious schools.

Both
the Liberal and Conservative plans take advantage (profit from) the
money-making schemes that result from the expansion of for-profit charter
schools. Both sides of the political spectrum have plans that converge.
They all want the same results—nationalizing education with federal
control of ALL children, ALL teachers,
ALL curriculum, and ALL schools or
“knowledge-dispensing centers.” Oh, and by the way, they
want your local tax base, too.

Here
is how this plan will work:

It
is all about Title I

The
Obama Administration has given states ESEA Flexibility Waivers
to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), which
is Bush's No Child Left Behind legislation. ALL ESEA Flex Waivers
require College and Career Ready Standards. What we have seen so far
is deceptive. A state will withdraw from the Memorandum of Understanding
(MOU), the copyright for Common Core, and then align Common Core into
its own state standards when accepting the waiver.

But,
parents must realize that Common Core has been transformed with a new
name. The state will still conform to College and Career Ready Standards
mandated by “Race to the Top” (RTTTT) funding, but further
explained in these flexibility waivers. Particularly, these standards
must go beyond language arts and math toward workforce readiness skills,
which originally started as Common Core. Sometimes a state will include
P20W, pre-natal through age 20, standards into the workforce training,
expanding the K-12 agenda. (See, for example, “Oregon's
Common Core Goes P-20” and Kentucky
too.)

NOTE:
The following pilot states—Ohio, Kentucky, Maine, West Virginia,
Wisconsin, New York, New Hampshire, and Oregon—are redesigning
their educational systems to correlate with federal standards called
Innovation Lab Network, funded by the international Organization of
Economic and Cultural Development (OECD), Lumina Foundation, and Chief
State School Officers (CCSSO). CCSSO is the group that copyrighted the
Common Core Standards along with the National Governors Association.

Oklahoma's
passage of House Bill 3399, that supposedly removed Common
Core Standards, stated this in their bill,

Upon
the effective date of this act, the State Board of Education shall
seek certification from the State Regents for Higher Education that
the subject matter standards for English
Language Arts and Mathematics which were in place prior to the revisions
adopted by the Board in June 2010 are college-and career-ready
as defined in the Federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act(ESEA) Flexibility document issued by the United
States Department of Education.... [emphasis added]

Oh
no! The legislature put Common Core into law through their Flex Waiver!
Governor Fallin is the Chairman of the National Governors Association
(the other group that copyrighted the Common Core Standards). Oklahoma
now calls their standards "Oklahoma Academic Standards," and
on the front of their Flex Waiver called their agenda “C3,
College, Career, Citizenship Standards”—exactly the
same as the CCSSO were calling it--to expand the standards to include
dispositions, or attitudinal and value standards. We can assume
that these standards will include testing and interventions in the non-cognitive
domain.

Indiana's
supposed departure from Common Core is referred to as the "grand
deception." Indiana's HB 1427 states

Provides
that the state board shall implement educational standards that use
the common core standards as the base model for academic standards to
the extent necessary to comply with federal standards to receive a Flexibility
Waiver. [emphasis added]

South
Carolina's bill, H3893, to stop Common Core and the Smarter Balanced
Test states

The
summative assessment must assess students in English/language arts and
mathematics, including those students as required by the federal Individuals
with Disabilities Education Act and by Title I of the Elementary
and Secondary Education Act. For purposes of this subsection,
'English/language arts' includes English, reading, and writing skills
as required by existing state standards. [emphasis added]

Existing
state standards? You guessed it! Common Core. Do you see a pattern here?
This has happened in several states where Common Core is most controversial.
While parents believe Common Core is gone, little do they know those
standards were just embedded in the ESEA Title I Flexibility
Waivers signed by your state’s secretary or superintendent
of education. Unfortunately, Oklahoma, Indiana, and South Carolina have
taken the bait. Common Core is still there, with other new forceful
accountability measures, like Value Added Models (VAM), to be sure teachers
are teaching Common Core, and interventions using special
education funds from the Individuals with Disabilities Education
Act (IDEA) called “Response to Intervention.” RtI is
used for ALL students to make sure they are covered by IDEA to meet
Common Core Standards.

The
Plan to Use Title I to Expand School Choice to Private and Religious
schools

How
will EVERY child become Title I? President Johnson's
"War on Poverty" gave schools funding, called ESEA Title I,
to help those schools where there were concentrations of students who
were poor. Interestingly enough, the term was "educationally deprived."
So, the issue with the ESEA Flexibility Waiver is that the poverty guidelines
were removed. This means that children who qualified for free and reduced
lunches, where a school had to have 40% of students that qualified under
poverty guidelines, are now in a school where that requirement is reduced
to "0%." This means ALL individual children
in an entire school can receive federal ESEA Title I funds for EVERY
child: the funds "follow the child."

This
means that a child is considered “educationally deprived”
if he/she does not meet standards. Interestingly, the 'Conservative'
organization American Legislative Exchange Counsel, (ALEC) just released
model legislation for choice and charter schools for every state in
the country. They refer to students not meeting standards with the term
"academically disadvantaged." This is what is needed to move
forward with federal “choice.” EVERY child
must be identified for “choice” funds, no matter where they
go to school. Obama has done this through the ESEA Flexibility Waiver.

Now
that ALL children in public school are Title I, the
Republicans can take over from here. They want “choice”
[those Title I funds] for EVERY student who goes to
private and religious schools, too! This is a terrible bait and switch
deception for those parents and citizens who think that choice means
freedom of choice for private and religious education! This
is not freedom, nor true choice.

Where
is the federal “choice” agenda now? ESEA Re-authorization
Is held up by Senator Reid... at the moment.

The
Re-authorization of ESEA is the bill in Congress that changes how funding
will now follow the child. The Republicans in the House of Representatives
added "choice" amendments to the ESEA Re-authorization in
HR 5 that can "follow the child" with Title I funds into any
private or religious school. This passed the House in July of 2013.

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The
Democrats, on the Senate side, voted to have SB 1094 come out of committee,
but it has not been brought up for an entire Senate vote. SB 1094 wants
Title I funds to follow the child to any public or charter school. But,
Obama's Flexibility Waivers are doing most of that job already
without the passage of the Re-authorization of ESEA legislation. Obama
supports “choice” in the Flexibility Waivers in public schools.
The passage of the entire ESEA package (with Republican amendments in
conference committee using federal “choice” funding) will
allow federal Title I funds to be attached to your child, to have the
“choice” to go to any school, anywhere. This is the legislation
that Obama and the ‘Conservative’ groups want to pass for
federal “choice” to become a reality.

WARNING!
There are strings attached! Title I Choice funds can be connected to
your child to go to any charter, private or religious school you choose.
Obama wants “equity” in education. This means the same amount
of money for every child with federal accountability strings attached.
The compromise will be “choice” for everyone, potentially
even home schoolers. There will be no differences in schools anywhere,
nationalizing education in the United States through “choice”
and Common Core—all will have to “drink the Kool-Aid.”
That's what “equity in education” means. All schools will
become government schools under the Re-authorization of ESEA. You get
“choice.” But they control all the schools! For part two
click below.

In
1990 a federal investigation was completed against the Pennsylvania Department
of Education, after filing a federal complaint against the Educational
Quality Assessment, EQA, & the US Department of Education's National
Assessment of Educational Progress, NAEP, under the Protection of Pupils
Rights Amendment. Forced the Pennsylvania EQA to be withdrawn. Forced
the US Department of Education to do their job to investigate the psychological
testing of children without informed written parental consent. NAEP was
never investigated because the Department said I didn't have standing,
although documents had proven that NAEP did experimental research &
used different states to pilot their agenda by embedding their test questions
into the Pennsylvania EQA as well as other state tests.

Subject
& main researcher for the book, Educating for the New World Order.
My story is told about an incredible journey into the devious & deceptive
operations of our government to change the values, attitudes & beliefs
of American children to accept a new world order. The first to document
the expansive data collection operation of our government establishing
micro-records on individual people in the United States. Experimentation,
illegal testing, & data collection is exposed.

Lectured
all over the Unites States in the 90's about illegal & controversial
testing, curriculum, & collection of data by our government. Arranged
& lectured town hall meetings all across the state of Pennsylvania
to withdraw affective student learning outcomes to stop Outcome Based
Education. In January of 1992, parents in Pennsylvania won the battle
against OBE when the Independent Regulatory Review Board had requested
that the State Board of Education remove all outcomes which dealt with
attitudes, habits, traits, feelings, values, & opinions which are
difficult & subjective to measure & that the remaining outcomes
be defined & coordinated with academic requirements that can be measured.
The battle continues.